Costa had at least three bad snaps to Tony Romo on Monday night against Washington. The Cowboys complained that Washington defensive linemen were simulating Romo’s snap counts to throw off Costa. But Costa never said it was Bowen.

“Honestly, I don’t understand how I could simulate his snap count. Am I supposed to memorize the colors and the numbers he was saying?” Bowen said to Washington media. “Honestly, I lost a lot of respect for Costa. If that was the case, then why didn’t any of their offensive linemen jump offsides? It makes no sense, because he’s lying. Just be a man and stand by your word. Everybody respects a man that tells the truth.

“Even during the game, the ref came to us and asked if we were making fake snap counts, and I looked at Barry [Cofield] like, ‘Huh? Did you make a noise? I didn’t make a noise. I didn’t even hear anything,’” Bowen said. “So for him to say that, I’m disappointed, and I lost respect in him. He’s making excuses for messing up. And they’re trying to make me out to be some guy that I’m not. I’m not that type of person. I just line up and play ball.”

The Cowboys asked the NFL for clarification.

“I don’t know how you can do it,” Bowen told the Washington media. “You’re so zoned out, you’re so concentrated on your play and to give a fake snap count, you may confuse your guys and make them jump. There’s no point in that.”

Redskins coach Mike Shanahan denied the Cowboys’ claims.

“The one thing about accusing somebody for doing something like that, especially nowadays, especially this year, is the center is mic’d,” Shanahan said. “And when the center is mic’d, you go back in audio and see if one of our players did say a snap count, and they did not.”